The display is the same 15.4-inch 2880×1800 display Apple has used in all the Retina MacBook Pros, and it still looks great-it's nice and sharp and has good-looking colors and great viewing angles. The 15-inch model uses the extra space well-it’s drastically more powerful than the other MacBooks even though none of its year-to-year updates since 2012 have been very impressive.
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The 13-inch Pro only weighs 3.48 pounds, the 13-inch Air weighs 2.96 pounds, and the MacBook weighs 2.06 pounds. Of course, compared to any other product in the modern MacBook family, the 15-inch version is chunky. Those models weighed 5.6 pounds where the Retina version weighs 4.49 pounds they were 0.95 inches thick where the Retina model is 0.71 inches thick. If you’re upgrading from an older 15-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro, this laptop will still seem relatively thin and light. This is the same unibody aluminum chassis Apple has been using for the 15-inch model since the Retina model was introduced back in 2012.
Nothing about the design of the new MacBook Pro is a surprise. Look and feel, 4K and 5K, and the Force Touch trackpad Apple sent us the high-end $2,499 model for review so we could at least test out all of those tweaks, but if you were hoping for something significantly better than the 20 models, you’ll come away disappointed. A different dedicated GPU in the high-end model, a marginally larger battery, and faster PCI Express-based storage are all welcome improvements. The new MacBook Pros do include a handful of other upgrades, though. It’s not clear why this happened-given the timing I’d guess Apple knows something we don’t about how well Intel’s quad-core parts are ramping up-but whatever the reason, the new model is neither as significant nor as interesting as it might have been. Instead, Apple released the new MacBook Pros with the exact same chips they’ve been using for almost two years now, quad-core Haswell chips with Intel’s Iris Pro 5200 GPU. Assuming they follow the same pattern as the dual-core Broadwell parts, those chips would have provided small CPU and battery life boosts and larger increases to graphics performance. Those were just announced and should begin showing up at retail within the next 30 to 60 days. When the company held off refreshing the 15-inch model alongside the 13-inch Pro and both MacBook Airs earlier this year, we assumed it was waiting for the oft-delayed quad-core Broadwell processors from Intel. Webcam, backlit keyboard, dual integrated mics, Force Touch trackpadĪpple released a new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro last month, but it’s not the update we were expecting.
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Hopefully they run a patch for the OS or something that fixes this? Fingers crossed.Specs at a glance: 15-inch 2015 Apple Retina MacBook ProĢ.5GHz Intel Core i7-4870HQ (Turbo up to 3.7GHz) Of course this is the one time I didn't get Applecare as I've never needed it on my several other macs. I bought this as I needed something more than my Air for school work, and am worried it won't last long if it runs so hot all the time. The fact that multiple peeps at Apple have reported no familiarity with the fact that these run hot (even though it's all over these and other forums) and were not able to see what I was talking about when I brought it in worries me. I have not put any files back onto this machine but it still runs super hot. Really? Are they really that fragile that music files corrupt the entire machine so it overheats? This was not a problem before. They did a factory reset and told me it might be because I transferred a bunch of music files from my other pro. I took it to Apple and they checked it out and say they "could not replicate the issue" which is odd, as almost anything I do gets it over 90-100c.
I'm scared to play any games on it at all, which is a total bummer as I went with the stronger hardware so I could do some light gaming. Even youtube or hulu raise to 100c within seconds.
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I've had my mac no more than 2 months, and noticed right away it got super hot when doing almost anything with it. This happens to mine too! The genius bar guy acted as if i were crazy when I said 100c - he's like "you do know that is hot enough to boil water, right?" (yes lol, i'm familiar with water's boiling temp.) I also use Temp Gauge (from the ap store) to watch temps.